A Pennsylvania judge has ordered state police to release body-worn camera footage capturing a car chase that ended in a fatal ...

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

These sweeping seizures of a journalist’s records violate the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and the Privacy Protection Act.

Within hours, RCFP attorneys filed in federal court seeking records on the government’s justification for the raid.

Represented by RCFP attorneys, the news outlet alleges that the Federal Bureau of Prisons violated FOIA by unlawfully ...

T]his is a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press,” said RCFP President ...

Tanvi Valsangikar, RCFP’s inaugural Abrams Legal Fellow, provides free legal services to FRONTLINE and other documentary ...

The government cannot justify wholesale secrecy here, where the public’s ability to understand a search with serious ...

Gabe Rottman is the Reporters Committee's vice president of policy, leading the organization's work to advance key policy priorities like the PRESS Act and the Department of Justice news media ...

Background: In 2023, Business Insider published a three-part series and an accompanying documentary cataloging hundreds of ...

The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of the recording laws (which restrict the recording and dissemination of phone calls and in-person conversations) and hidden camera laws (which ...

The government cannot justify wholesale secrecy here, where the public’s ability to understand a search with serious ...